Performance, digital video, HD 1920 × 1080 16:9

05:40 min

Filmed in Toge, Niigata, Japan

Camera and sound by Marcus Coates

Translator / interpreter: Aiko Goodenough

Commissioned and produced by Grizedale Arts as part of the Grizedale Arts residency project ‘Seven Samurai’

Supported by Echigo Tsumari Triennale, Japan

Seven artists were guests of the mountain village of Toge, a rice growing area in Niigata province. Coates filmed residents of the village in their houses. they sang along to the slowed down bird songs of wild birds in their area. The film was sped up to the original speed of the birdsong enabling their voices to sound like the bird's.